The College of the Canyons class of 2009 is celebrating commencement, today at 9:30 am, in the Honor Grove of the Valencia campus.  

With more than a thousand students graduating this year COC has compiled some interesting facts about the Class of 2009:

• Number of graduates – 1096

• Numbers of majors represented – 43

• Number of female graduates – 708 (65%)

• Number of male graduates – 388 (35%)

• Average age of the graduates – 26 years old

• 466 ethnic minorities are part of the graduating class

• The youngest graduate is 16 years old (we actually have two 16-year olds)

• The eldest graduate is 71 years old

• 12 students will be graduating with 4.0 GPA’s

• 190 students will graduate with honors

• 28 graduates are International Students from a wide variety of countries including:

Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

• The average class GPA is 3.03

• Graduates who are Armed Forces Veterans – 24

• Students who completed their degrees at the Canyon Country Campus combining on-  
ground and online classes – 2

• Graduates who took some of their classes at the Canyon Country campus – 523

• Leading Majors:                    Transfer Studies                       399 graduates
Nursing                                     156 graduates
Biological & Phys. Science         79 graduates
Accounting                                 63 graduates
Social Science                            48 graduates
Business                                     36 graduates
Admin of Justice                         33 graduates
English                                        29 graduates
General Education                      31 graduates
Early Childhood Education          29 graduates
Fire Technology                          21 graduates
History                                        20 graduates
Mathematics                               15 graduates